Continuing the series of reissues from the Tresor catalogue, Tresor Records announces an updated version of the classic Regis and Female long-player, Againstnature.

Originally released in the year 2000, the album represents a pivotal moment in the emergence of the “Birmingham Sound”; a stripped-back sub-genre of Techno, pioneered around this time in the English hub by artists such as Regis, Female, and Surgeon. 
Influenced more by Industrial, Music Concrete, and EBM than from the melodic sounds of its Detroit predecessor, Regis later described the music as being made with a fractured pop sensibility which created a sound that may be faceless but by design loses none of the soul of its American counterpart.

Nowhere is this sonic changing of the guard more apparent than in opening track, Washing My Hands, which sets the stage with a vignette of field recordings: arc welders, water boilers and other sounds reminiscent of industrial workshops reframe your senses, placing your mind into a familiar yet unsettling dreamlike space. From this soundscape emerges a high-pitched, vitreous noise heralding the jarring introduction of Let Them Bleed, the first of several trance-inducing tracks on the album such as Join Us In Paradise, and Guiltless, which layer percussive and sampled loops creating what Peter Sutton (aka Female) described as exotic hypnotics.

This remastered edition of Againstnature also features the additional track, Theme From Streetwalker, previously only available on Volume 6 of the Tresor Compilation series. Collected together the album is a key work in the progression of this sub-genre to the dominant form of Techno heard in clubs in Berlin and around the world today.

Againstnature

Guiltless

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Guiltless (preview)

Hanoi Hanoi

Hanoi Hanoi (preview)

Join Us in Paradise

Join Us In Paradise (preview)

Meat

Meat (preview)

Nothing and No One

Nothin And No One (preview)

Paralyzing

Paralyzing (preview)

Washing My Hands

Washing My Hands (preview)

Function in the mix for Tresor 30. 

Functions EP "Awakening From The Illusory Self" featured in the intro of the mix is available here: http://bit.ly/tresor320-bc

HÖR X Tresor 30 - Hardwax Live From The Vault – Function

Vinyl techno mix recorded on 2 Technics MK2 SL-1210


Techno Mix / Ostgut Ton / Synwaves / M Plant / Tresor / Function / Damon Wild / Robert Hood / Scan X / British Murder Boys / Regis / Surgeon / Female / Sandwell District / Lucy / Stroboscopic Artefact / Polar Inertia

Segment2

Vinyl Techno mix redorded on 2 turntables MK2 SL1210 and 1 rotary mixer

Segment3

Hypnotic techno mix recorded on 2 MK2 SL1210 and 1 rotary mixer.

Alien Abduction(got abducted mix)

LIES-178-OD-01
Silent Servant-Solitude Illuminated

Los Angeles' Silent Servant returns to the fold with his first solo offering since his 2018 "Shadows of Death and Desire" lp for Hospital Productions.

Mendez wastes no time on the opener "Cyber Luminescence" featuring Cabaret Voltaire's Stephen Maillinder on vocals, with a modern take on classic synthwave displaying a heavier production style, with fluttering kr-55 hi-hats, synthesized snares, and a chaotic punk energy. This is not without melody and catchiness, as Mallinder drives the track full on; masterfully singing about a dystopian future which we very well may be living in at this moment.

"Raw Optics" is Silent Servant in true form layering an atmospheric backdrop over driving raw sequences and vicious drum programming.

"Solitude Illuminated" is the real centerpiece of the record though, as Mendez goes into a new territory finding a balance between uplifting slow house music and his signature shadowy techno. Where his classic "Lust Abandon" was more Distant Dreams pt. II, "Solitude Illuminated" is more akin to something like Dearborn's house classic "New Dimension" but taking a fresh production approach on this bassline driven seven minute anthem.  Truly a welcome return by Mendez. Each record comes with a large heavy grade paper fold out poster.

Optimistic Decay

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Silent Servant-Solitude Illuminated (LIES-178-OD01)

Live at “Night Studies : vivre la nuit en temps de pandémie” event in la Gaîté Lyrique in Paris, on the 30th of september 2022
Parisian venue la Gaîté Lyrique hosted an conference on night life in Paris & Berlin after the covid pandemic.  The live concert closed the day after many great talks and performances
Thanks to the organisers and all the beautiful attendees 

Own productions only, whether alone (gorbé) or with my brother and sister (red lands) 
- live session with a Prophet 6, a MB 33, a Digitakt and Ableton - non mastered

Live from Gaité Lyrique

Gorbé live @ la Gaîté Lyrique - Paris - september 2022

This month guest is Grad_U, the owner of Redscale and Greyscale Records. He send over a 90 minute guest mix to present his full sound spectrum.

In the first hour it’s my turn, where I play my latest track called ’Observe’ alongside new music by Donato Dozzy, Skudge and more.
Enjoy the trip…

Music is able to lift you into other dimensions, so come with me through this portal and immerse into the depths of my record collection.

www.markussuckut.com

Portal Episode 51 by Markus Suckut and Grad_U

Ze qaid-e dojahan azad baasham;
Agar tu hum-nashin-e bandah baashi.

I shall be set free from the bonds of the two worlds
If you become my companion for a while.

Amir Khusro

Hasht Behecht

Semi retirement and trans-media exploration

Bismillah Love Orientation

I had the idea to start an own podcast series for quite a while now but I was a bit afraid to be honest. I wanted to keep it in a radio show format, as this is the format I grew up with and this was how I’ve discovered music. Also I wanted to do something different as I have a pretty wide range in music which I like. I get influenced by so many things so I thought it might be interesting for you to take this platform as the concept for a podcast. I will dig deeper and deeper through my collection of records and present it to you each month. It doesn’t matter how new or old the music is, it’s just about creating a good vibe to listen to, to enter another dimension.

Moreover the idea is also to invite guests, in irregular intervals - people I respect for what they are doing music wise and for the culture.

Music is able to lift you into other dimensions, so come with me through this portal and immerse into the depths of my record collection.

L.I.E.S. Records, label is based out of Brooklyn, New York releasing a wide scope of various strains of electronic music. 

For all worldwide bookings including the U.S. contact: rene@octopus-agents.com


All domestic distribution and mailorder for L.I.E.S. releases in the U.S. is handled direct via the label. Please contact us at info@liesrecords.com

Distribution in the EU through <a href="http://www.rushhour.nl" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.rushhour.nl</a>

At midnight, on March 13th 1991, a basement door opened at Leipziger Strasse 126, Berlin. Through this door, many passed, on their way to defining new terrains in electronic music. There they found a dance floor in the vaults of a closed-down department store, with a unique sound bound to dense fog, building night after night a history that was also a vision of the future. 

This history has seen in Jeff Mills’ first sets on three turntables, Underground Resistance's first live appearances in Europe, grandiose Tresor Park parties, to various chapters of the Loveparade with Sven Väth in the 90s and since then countless generation-spanning parties. These moments represent the highlights of infinite personal clubbing experiences. It is the manifestation of the Berlin spirit, emerging from its considerable strife. This history is not without its complications - from temporary closure by the authorities and several raids in the early years to closure and demolition of the old location in 2005. What followed was years of wandering in exile and, finally, resurrection in the new home in Kraftwerk Berlin.

These stories, conversations and shared experiences within our walls forge a resilience that drives towards a shared ideal, the Tresor sound: community, resistance, and the world to come. This was observed in the newly re-unified German youth, who danced and celebrated together from the club’s inception, and into the present day through ongoing community work in Detroit. 

Tresor Records was founded in the same year and began to serve as a platform for exporting the new sounds associated with Tresor all around the world. Emergent musicians from Michigan, such as Juan Atkins, Underground Resistance and Drexciya, were pivotal in shaping these early years. Their visits to Berlin would kick-start dialogue between the youth movement in Europe and these musicians. This story is one of friendship and community-building, inextricably linked with cities like Detroit, Birmingham or Edinburgh, where like-minded friends built something truly special, where revelatory rhythms soundtrack decaying industry in corrupted metropoles. 

Tresor Records has been the fertile soil for dozens upon dozens of creative minds, from the very luminaries of the scene who developed electronic music over the last three decades through to contemporary protagonists who are currently defining the sound of the future -  A more than 300 strong catalogue displays an unmistakable identity - the Tresor spirit.

To those that have danced before, and to those that will dance in the future: the light at the end of the long Tresor tunnel is a signal. A flicker amidst the fog. This is our future. This is our place.

New tracks tagged #Sandwell District